18 AND 19, OLD ELVET

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE OLD ELVET NZ 2742 SE (South side)

15/305 Nos. 18 and 19 19.10.62 GV II

2 houses, one build. Late C18 with considerable C19 alterations. Stone plinth. Mottled, light red brick in English garden wall bond (5 and one). Welsh slate roof with brick copings and chimneys. 3 storeys, one and 2 bays. 6-panel doors with overlights (No. 19 blocked, and top door panels glazed), in architraves under later pedimented hoods, at left of No. 18 and off centre of No. 19. Tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, those at top and bottom left renewed early C19, the latter lost bars. Later C19 oriel at first floor left. 3-brick floor bands. Ridge and rear chimneys. Tumbled-in brickwork to gable ends.

Interior: No. 18 reported to have open-string stair with moulded handrail and 2 turned balusters per tread; square newels with knob finials; continuous curved tread end. No. 19 has open-string stair with moulded ramped handrail on diagonal lattice balustrade.

Source: F.J. Johnson. Historic Staircases of Durham City Durham 1970.

Listing NGR: NZ2782642301